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this is what I quoted from this article:<br />
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Apple policy requires you use strong passwords with your Apple ID. Your password must have 8 or more characters and include upper and lowercase letters, and at least one number. You can also add extra characters and punctuation marks to make your password even stronger. Apple also uses other password rules to make sure your password isn't easy to guess.
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Security and your Apple ID<br />
<a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201303" rel="ugc">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201303</a>
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this is what I quoted from this article:



> Apple policy requires you use strong passwords with your Apple ID. Your password must have 8 or more characters and include upper and lowercase letters, and at least one number. You can also add extra characters and punctuation marks to make your password even stronger. Apple also uses other password rules to make sure your password isn't easy to guess.


Security and your Apple ID
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201303 [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201303]

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@Ryan<br />
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This question is about passcode (i.e. the PIN to unlock the screen), not Apple ID.
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@Ryan

This question is about passcode (i.e. the PIN to unlock the screen), not Apple ID.

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@Jackie<br />
what i try to emphasize is the password portion in the article.
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@Jackie
what i try to emphasize is the password portion in the article.

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Passcode is designed for unlocking screen and it can work with or without network. <br />
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So, there is no in-built policies to control the complexity of the passcode and they are numeric only.
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Passcode is designed for unlocking screen and it can work with or without network.

So, there is no in-built policies to control the complexity of the passcode and they are numeric only.

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On iOS9, I understand that 6-digit passcodes were introduced as default, which is great news.<br />
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Does anyone know if there are in-built policies for this such as :<br />
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Cannot use passwords such as 123456<br />
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Cannot use the same character more than x times<br />
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Require Alpha and Numberic<br />
<br />
etc etc<br />
<br />
I've tried to search the internet but can't find.
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On iOS9, I understand that 6-digit passcodes were introduced as default, which is great news.

Does anyone know if there are in-built policies for this such as :

Cannot use passwords such as 123456

Cannot use the same character more than x times

Require Alpha and Numberic

etc etc

I've tried to search the internet but can't find.

iOS 9 Device Passcode

iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple; it is a derivative of the Mac OS X desktop operating system, with which it shares many (but not all) common frameworks and other components. These include Cocoa Touch, the Mach/Darwin/XNU kernel and code from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Each iOS application runs in its own secure sandbox to prevent altering other applications, the operating system, or any other data.

The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple Inc. It and the iPad, along with several other mobile devices from Apple, run on the iOS operating system, which has its own topic, as does the iPad for device-specific questions. Native iOS applications are written in Objective-C or in Swift using the Cocoa Touch frameworks or HTML5 compiled with the help of a package manager such as Adobe PhoneGap; a common IDE is Xcode.